I'm trying to manually pull the digests off of Rails assets (don't ask). I was directed to ZMV for easy regex-based find/replace. But the normal {32} syntax for specifying an amount of repetition does ...

I'm having an issue with zsh/oh-my-zsh with my custom PS1 prompt (that I brought across from bash).
When I use the built-in zsh/oh-my-zsh prompt and tab for auto-completion, this works as expected.
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Different methods exist to show if you're in insert or normal when using VI key binding in ZSH.
Gnome-terminal also allows you to change the caret from block █ to ibeam | with a call to gconftool-2.
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I use tmux (with zsh, if that helps). I have a pretty good setup, but often I find myself running a program with a lot of output, and then entering copy mode and reverse searching for the line I typed ...

I have written a script which itself takes as an argument any arbitrary executable in my $PATH. Is there a way to create a zsh (or bash) completion function such that I would be able to type myFunc ...

My understanding of shell is an interpreter between me and the OS. So it will translate my command and call the right program to perform it. For this simple task, why there're so many shells existing? ...

I have a folder of files with names like
thing.y.big.png
thing.y.small.png
thing.xxx.big.png
thing.xxx.small.png
and I would like to rename them so that the 2nd and 3rd "fields" are swapped. In the ...

I wanted to execute a command from a couple of days ago so I used ctrl-R to search for it. I could only see very recent entries. I checked the history file for the command and it was there, several ...

I run xubuntu and am switching from bash to zsh as the default shell. It works great - only thing I miss from the bash days is this: when I execute a command which isn't installed, bash would tell me ...

I have a project with a deeply nested folder structure. Most of the time I know the name of the file I want to work with, but the folder path is too long/complicated to type when I want to edit it, ...

Running zsh on a macbook air. Everything used to work normally until this morning - I don't even think zsh updated or anything like that. I can't type numbers, -, ., or / without holding fn. It does ...

I am working with Ubuntu and I would like to change my default shell to z shell. I cannot use the chsh -s /bin/zsh or chsh-s /bin/sh myuser command since my user name does not exist in /etc/passwd and ...

I have a large python codebase that knows a lot about my working environment. I would like to use it to set up my ZSH session when i open a terminal window. The python script would output text that ...

I would like to make vim screen tabs name more useful. I've turned on the screen plugin, and tried several approachs. One that I would enjoy most was to make the screen name fixed using another load ...

I typically have on the order of a dozen zsh processes running. When I edit my config files, I'd like a clean way to get them all to re-initialize. Ideally, this would not mean completely killing them ...

I am using gnome-shell 3.14 on archlinux 3.17.3-1.
I have a keyboard shortcut (ctrl+alt+T) to open an xfce4-terminal.
My issue is that when I triger this shortcut the focus is not set the the newly ...